Day 4,403—Mother’s Day 2026!—

 

   Start time: 9:25 a.m.

   Weather: Low 60s, 6-7 mi/h wind

My daughter and I were working on getting stuff ready for my wife this morning. We got her stickers with my daughter's and son's pictures on them, so she was putting some on her school card. When I was able to leave later, I ran to my mom’s house to put some things out for her. This is the first Mother’s Day since my grandmother died last year around this time. Her birthday was the first week of May, so I always remember getting her things and visiting with her at this time of the year. I ran from my old house past the bowling alley that I have memories of going to when I was ten. My homeschooling group would go there, bowl, and play video games. It seemed different when I went there back then, but from the outside, it hasn’t changed at all. That was 30 years ago. I had no idea that bowling alleys were such a good investment, but the one by my house is the same way. It looks like it's been there forever, and it's barely changed. I will have to take my kids there sometime.

        It looked like so many people were at the Old Sappington house, and I noticed the new restaurant, Katie’s, was packed. I went from Crestwood to Kirkwood, then through Webster, which brought me home. The sun was shining, but the wind was cold. It seems like every time a new year is over, I just start feeling like the date is normal. The 2025-2026 school year is about to end! But thinking about 2026-2027 seems unreal. How could we possibly get so close to the end of the 2020s? In the 1990s, I remember thinking how long ago the 1920s were, when WWI was recent and the Jazz Age, with the most famous American authors like Langston Hughes, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, was bursting on the scene. Now we’re almost at the end of the 2020s! Such a crazy number of things have happened in only 100 years. I hope things start to change for the better, but they will either way.